I am using Fedora 20 with Gnome. The screen Power Savings blanks the screen after 15 minutes and then the screen gets automatically locked. I'd like to have the screen blanked and locked after an hour, but the pop-up only goes up to 15 minutes. Is there any way to make it an hour?
2 Answers
You can put the desired values directly in GSettings, either via the dconf-editor app (i.e. "GNOME regedit") or command line:
Timeout for blanking the screen (seconds; 0 = never):
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 3600
Timeout for locking the screen after blanking (seconds; 0 = instant):
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-delay 0
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1That is great. Is there anyplace where all of this is documented?– vy32Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 0:16
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2Probably not. But the schemas and keys themselves do have descriptions, visible in
dconf-editor
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And you can also get the current settings via:
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-delay
Commented Nov 6, 2015 at 20:10 -
5Just for the sake of completion, there is also
org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled
for just enabling/disabling the locking. If you set this tofalse
, thelock-delay
will be ignored. Commented Jan 25, 2016 at 6:38 -
If you run the above commands from an SSH session and gets a warning about spawning dbus you need to either launch dbus or use terminal in the local session. Commented Jun 4, 2017 at 19:10
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1I only see the
lock-delay
option, worded as "Lock screen after blank for", and not theidle-delay
option, which is what most people probably want to control.– kbolinoCommented Aug 6, 2017 at 15:08 -
This suggestion indeed presents the pull-down for idle duration before lock screen starts. However, the OP wanted to know how to set it for 1 hour; the pull-down stops at 15 minutes.– kronenpjCommented Jan 13, 2018 at 21:05
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In Ubuntu 17.10 (which uses the GNOME Shell interface), it goes up to 1 hour... Commented Jan 30, 2018 at 18:23